Decoration

**Decoration**
It’s important to have a classroom that’s rich with culture and language because when students are spacing out in your classroom, they can still see everything that’s related to Chinese! You will be amazed how much students take in even just staring at the wall of decorations. Ideas on what to decorate: (show pictures on the book?) 1. Culture related items: Chinese dress, instruments, artifacts (chopsticks, fans, menu, etc.), Chinese painting, calligraphy scrolls, Chinese lanterns, kites, calendar with lunar calendar, 12 zodiac animal, etc. 2. Students’ work: have a section in the classroom that you can hang up student’s projects, change it periodically. Make sure you select good project to post on the wall, so students learn to work hard on their project to “show off”. 3. China map: with indication of different cities and pictures of landmarks 4. Theme based Chinese characters/pictures posters: try to make sure you don’t have posters like this all over your classroom. Make a special section to display these posters. It’s better if the posters related to what you are teaching right now 5. Useful Chinese phrases: phrases like “go to bathroom上厕所”, “How to say...怎么说——？”, etc. Encourage you to use pictures to match the Chinese phrases rather than English translations to prevent students from translating word by word. 6. Make use of the ceiling: you can hang kites, Chinese lanterns, students work, etc.

If you do not have a classroom, it is still important to “decorate” in the most creative way. If you are pushing a cart, make that cart a culture mobile. Involve students input! (NEED TO ADD ORE HERE...)

**Supplies**
Overall, be thinking about what you might need for the school year and communicate such with school to be add on to the supply list for upcoming NEW school year. Don’t be shy to ever check if there are other resources that will be able to fund the supply. This includes classroom award system, party and etc. Check with your school policy of requesting students to bring additional items during school year, some school frown upon asking parents while others, it is completely acceptable.

Dry erase markers Rolls of posters (different color) Laminating machine sticky notes Scotch tape Masking tape <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">glue sticks <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">folders
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provided by Schools **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(may varied from school to school)

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">color pencils/markers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">scissors <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tissue boxes <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ziplock bags <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">class-use folder/binder
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students provided **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(May varied from school to school)

**Instructional Materials**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School normally choose a textbook every 6 years, so: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A. If your school has not chosen a textbook for you to use, choose a textbook according to these guidelines: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Not too many vocabularies in each lesson <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Have a section that help students to focus on what characters need to learn in each lesson <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Pinyin is removed as lesson progress. This will help students to focus more on characters rather than relying on Pinyin all the time. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">B. If you have already have a textbook, you want to search for more materials (such as other textbooks, story books, workbooks, picture dictionaries, magazines, online resource, youtube, etc.) to help make your textbook more fun

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">School supply white paper and color paper for you to use in classes, but often the color paper will be used up quite quickly. Depend on schools, sometimes you can pre-order color paper for next school year at the end of the semester.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photocopying **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(May varied from school to school)

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Computers **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Normally, teachers will be offered a computer on their teachers’ station. But sometimes schools lend out laptop computers for teacher to take home if you need it for a special project, conference presentation, professional development workshop, etc.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google key words is the best way to find what you needed on line.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Web-based materials **